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sábado, 7 de junio de 2008

El jukebox que sólo ponía canciones tristes




Por extraño que parezca, mi canción favorita de hoy es una de ¡Silver Jews! la canción estaba incluida en uno de esos cds que dan las revistas mensuales y desde ayer que la escuché no se me quita de la cabeza. Está incluida en su nuevo lp llamado "Lookout mountain, Lookout Sea" y es una oda a un jukebox bastante peculiar, que sólo tiene canciones tristes. Dice el estribillo cantado por un coro de voces femeninas:
"suffering jukebox such a sad machineyour filled up with what other people needand they never seem to turn you up loudthere are a lot of chatterboxes in this crowd"

Al parecer el grupo ha adoptado una vertiente un poco más pop gracias a la mujer del líder, que toca el bajo en el disco ("All year she would come home from her office job and practice playing for hours," he says. "She would put a Scott Walker or Prefab Sprout LP on and play along.")
Lo cierto es que en general el lp está bastante bien ya que aparte de que las canciones son más pegadizas, los constantes coros femeninos suavizan bastante el tono (un poco como lo que hace Leonard Cohen)

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/6/3/1942444/Silver%20Jews%20-%20Suffering%20Jukebox.mp3

viernes, 6 de junio de 2008

Pet Shop Boys versionean a Madness


http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/6/3/1942444/Pet%20Shop%20Boys%20-%20My%20Girl.mp3

En su página oficial se puede escuchar esta versión del "My Girl" de Madness que tocaron en directo hace poco acompañados de Suggs, cantante de Madness. En la sección de noticias dicen que están grabando su nuevo lp que cuenta con diversos colaboradores, entre ellos New Order y Saint Etienne. El amigo Popcasting pinchó esta canción en su último programa.

jueves, 5 de junio de 2008

Elephant Noise – "This song is our friend"

No tengo ni idea de quienes son, pero la canción está bastante bien. La ha colgado Federica Pulla en su blog. Lo único que he encontrado de ellos es su nombre en twee.net al hacer referencia a los futuros vólumenes de The Sound of Leamington Spa. Está claro que es un grupo de los 80 pero poco más se puede descubrir

miércoles, 4 de junio de 2008

Nuevo EP de Club 8


New EP from Club 8 - available now!


On this new 5-track EP the title track is backed up by four brilliant, exclusive tracks - two brand new songs and remixes by Jimahl and new Labrador signees The Sound of Arrows.


We're offering all three versions of "Jesus, walk with me" as free MP3 download here (zip) >>


The street date is June 11. We start shipping orders today. 6 Euros including freight. Order here >>


EXTRA NEWS - LABRADOR ALLSTARSYour new favourite club is called Labrador Allstars and starts on June 06 at Trädgården, Stockholm. Read more >>
01. Jesus, walk with me02. What I'm dreaming of is something I could have03. Take me home04. Jesus, walk with me (The Sound of Arrows remix)05. Jesus, walk with me (Jimahl remix)

El curioso nuevo single de edwyn Collins (del Mojo de Julio)




lunes, 2 de junio de 2008

Interesante indie blog

Es el blog de un veterano (líder de The Bulldozer Crash (Sunday Records) y Kosmonaut (matinee)) dos grupos que no precisamente mis favoritos. Sin embargo el personaje es interesante porque es una autoridad en pop de los 80 y porque llevó en su día varios fanzines (algunos de ellos hoy inconseguibles porque como cuenta él mismo, algunos roedores que habitaban en su garage ¡se los comieron!)

naturalmente cuelga cassettes (con sonido de vinilo, faltaría más) y fanzines en sus posts)

la dirección es http://woodside-design.blogspot.com/

domingo, 1 de junio de 2008

The Clientele en plan disco



As one member of the Clientele Forum puts it, ‘kind of Sister Sledge meets Orange Juice round at Jimmy Page’s house’.

La canción principal "Share The Night" se puede escuchar en http://www.myspace.com/theclienteleofficial

Lo edita Acuarela, según leo en http://www.theclientele.co.uk/news/2008/05/new-ep-and-spanish-tour

Friday, May 16 2008

New EP and Spanish Tour

There is an all-new Clientele E.P. coming up, the first recordings we’ve made since God Save the Clientele. It will be released by Acuarela Records of Madrid (the third E.P. we’ve done with them and the last part of a trilogy). We’ve always used our Acuarela E.P.s to stretch out a little bit between albums and create a kind of a through-the-looking glass version of the Clientele, and this will be no exception, but this time with the catchiest songs we’ve ever recorded. The title of the E.P. is "That night a Forest Grew". See shows section for a supporting Spanish tour, including a visit to Primavera Sound.

La foto está sacada de http://acuarela-algodemi.blogspot.com/

Arthur and Martha - "Autovia"


No es al autobahn de Kraftwerk en versión pop, aunque lo parezca

de http://www.indie-mp3.co.uk/2008/03/arthur-and-martha-autovia.html



Arthur and Martha are Adam Cresswell and Alice Hubley. The former was in Saloon whilst the latter was in The Duloks. Using their moogs, casios and drum machine they prove that the links between indie and electro pop are not as far apart as they may seem on first glance on this, their debut single release.

Autovia sounds like Kraftwerk listening to the Rough Trade indie pop compilation whilst speeding down the motorway. It's pulasting driving stuff suiting it's auto-mobile inspired named. Flip side Japanese Kiss is poppier and is similar Pet Shop Boys finest moments. Cresswell's vocals are very Neil Tennant like meaning such comparisons are inevitable. It just shouts POP at you!

The download version of the single includes two extra tracks including the superb Squarewave To Heaven which is moog paradise and would no doubt would get the thumbs up from Delia Derbyshire at the pearly gates discotheque. The other track Autovia 2 is a more robotic, darker version of the original which still has it's merits.

Recommended for both analogue and digital heads.

Both versions of the single will be out on April 7th on Happy Robots. Tracks from the release can be streamed at the bands My Space page.

Datos personales

contact: silvinaberenguergomez@gmail.com